“You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile. The Speaker's smile was just… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“...I like the way Chee kept God magical, sorta like Santa Claus when you're a kid. More priests should take this approach,… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
“The problem is not that people are called to die to their sin, but rather that too many Christians are lined up… — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
“Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing… — Johnny Carr Copy Share Image
I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
“Contrast toxic religion with the pure gospel. Religion is all about what I do. The gospel is all about what Jesus has… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“What the Lord is saying here is: “It doesn't matter what you did. Whatever it was, no matter how horrible or vile,… — Stephen E. Robinson Copy Share Image
“What if the energy and resources used to preserve and tweak the civil religion was rather spent feeding the hungry, housing the… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.” — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Bible gives a true and trustworthy account of creation, and that account in no way conflicts with or contradicts an old-Earth… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. I wish to use every… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Curses are exacting, legal arrangements of the spiritual world. Just like human contracts contain fine print and legally crafted language, satanic curses… — Bob Larson Copy Share Image
Seventy-two virgins - does that make sense to anyone? And it's an ancient religion, maybe it was misinterpreted? Maybe it's not 72… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
“Paull has his own style, which is folksy, not canned. Religion? He's got one. His prophet's Ayn Rand. By Rand's eerie theories… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“To understand Jesus when he stated that he was the way, the truth and the life, one must first recognize his manner… — The Tru Sum Copy Share Image
It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Walking by faith does not mean you fold your arms and do nothing. There is a process involved and that is when… — Eric Tayem Tangumonkem Copy Share Image
“If freedom once required a secular critique of religion, it can also require a religious critique of the secular.” — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
“God will not allow us to be overwhelmed by temptation, but with it He will provide a way of escape so that… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I went through a couple of years there just mad at the world. I put my faith in the world and the… — Peyton Hillis Copy Share Image
Inverse paranoia of believing everything is for the greater good helps the human spirit face and welcome lifes turbulent changes cheerfully. — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
True friendship is devotion serving each other identifying one self with others sufferings just forgetting ones own wishes, own priorities and own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I get that. For you, it’s more than following a bunch of rules—no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Is the Christianity we have been living out in our families, congregations, and communities a means of deeper conversion, or does it… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
